FEMISNIST CRITICISM
MCQs: Feminist Criticism-,SET2
1.Who
wrote "The Color Purple," a novel that explores the experiences of
African American women and themes of abuse, resilience, and sisterhood?
A)
Toni Morrison B) Alice
Walker
C)
Zora Neale Hurston D) Maya
Angelou
2.Which
wave of feminism focused on legal rights such as suffrage and emerged in the
late 19th and early 20th centuries?
A)
First Wave B) Second Wave
C)
Third Wave D) Fourth Wave
3.Who
is the author of "A Room of One's Own," a foundational feminist text
that explores the importance of economic independence for women in literature?
A)
Virginia Woolf B) Mary Shelley
C)
Jane Austen D) Emily Brontë
4.Which
feminist critic is known for her essay "The Laugh of the Medusa,"
which discusses women's writing and creativity as a form of resistance against
patriarchal norms?
A)
Adrienne Rich B) Virginia Woolf
C)
Hélène Cixous D) Charlotte Perkins
Gilman
5.Which
feminist author is known for her book "The Feminine Mystique," which
critiqued the societal expectations placed on women in the mid-20th century?
A)
Mary Wollstonecraft B) Betty
Friedan
C)
bell hooks D)
Audre Lorde
6.What
does the term "Gynocriticism" refer to in feminist literary theory?
A)
The study of literature written by men
B)
The analysis of feminist literary criticism
C)
The focus on women as writers and characters
D)
The exploration of LGBTQ+ themes in literature
7.Who
wrote "The Second Sex," a foundational text in feminist philosophy
that explores the concept of "woman as the Other" in patriarchal
society?
A)
Mary Wollstonecraft B) bell hooks
C)
Simone de Beauvoir D) Adrienne
Rich
8.Which
feminist author wrote "The Handmaid's Tale," a dystopian novel that
explores themes of reproductive control and the oppression of women in a
theocratic society?
A)
Toni Morrison B)
Margaret Atwood
C)
Zora Neale Hurston D) Gloria
Steinem
9.Who
is known for coining the term "womanism" as a form of feminism that
focuses on the experiences and struggles of Black women?
A)
Simone de Beauvoir B) Audre
Lorde
C)
Butler D)
Alice Walker
10.Who
wrote "The Madwoman in the Attic," a feminist literary analysis of
Victorian literature that explores the representation of women as
"mad" or "hysterical"?
A)
Sandra Gilbert B) Virginia Woolf
C)
Butler D) Kate Chopin
11.Which
is wrongly matched
A) The
Prisoner of Sex- Norman Mailer
B) The
Dialects of Sex- Sulamith Firestone
C) The
Sexual Textual Politics- Terril Moi
D) Undoing
Gender- Vandana Shiva
12. “Gender
is not to culture, as sex is to nature” is a famous quote in
A)
The Colour Purple B) Laugh of Medusa
C)Gender
Trouble D) Ain’I a Woman?
13.Which
of the following is not a concept of Julia Christieva
A)Intertextuality B)Hetero Sexual Contract
C)Abjection D)Chora
14.’Ecriture
Feminine’ concept is coined by Helene Cixous in her
A)Laugh
of Medusa B)Gender Trouble
C)Madwoman
in Attic D)The Colour Purple
15.Who
said “Unconscious is structured like a language”
A)Mitchell B)Freud
C)Lacan D)Butler
17.Which
concept of Freud is about ‘The animal/amoral instincts of humans’
A) Id B)Ego
C)Super
Ego D)conscious
18.Thinking
about Women is a work by
A) De
Beavouir B)Mary
Ellman
C)Betty
Friedan D) Judith Mitchell
19.The
Professions for Women (1931) is a famous speech by
A)
Helene Cixous B) Virginia Woolf
C)
Judith Butler D) Elaine
Showalter
20.Where
do we find this quote “I am a woman, one is not born woman, rather becomes a
woman”
A)
The Colour Purple B) Laugh of Medusa
C)
Gender Trouble D) The Second Sex
Answers:
|
1.B |
2.A |
3.A |
4.C |
5.B |
6.C |
7.C |
8.B |
9.D |
10.A |
|
11.D |
12.C |
13.B |
14.A |
15.C |
16.A |
17.A |
18.B |
19.B |
20.D |
MCQs- FEMINIST CRITICISM- SET2
1.What is the meaning of Écriture féminine, a term coined by Helen Cixous?
a) Women's
writing
b) Womanly
writing
c) Writing
for women readership
d) All the
above
2.Which
feminist critic has written an extensive treatise on the subject of abjection?
a) Kate
Millet
b) Germaine
Greer
c) Julia
Kristeva
d) Mary
Ellman
3.Match
the title with the author:
(a) Sexual
Politics (i)
Mary Ellman
(b) A
Literature of Their Own (ii)
Elaine Showalter
(c) Thinking
About Women (iii)
Helene Cixous
(d) The
Laugh of the Medusa (iv)
Kate Millet
Code:
(A) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(B) (iv)
(ii) (i) (iii)
(C) (iii)
(iv) (i) (ii)
(D) (iv) (i)
(ii) (iii)
4. Which
of the following works argued that women texts are palimpsests?
a) The
Madwoman in the Attic
b) No Man's
Land
c) A
Literature of their Own
d) The
Second Sex
5.Match the works with authors:
a) Bodies
that matter i.
Camille paglia
b) A world
of difference ii.
Elaine Showalter
c) A
literature of their own iii.
Barbara Johnson
d) Vamps and
thamps iv.
Judith Butler
Choose the
correct option:
(A) (a)-(i),
(b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
(B)
(a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
(C)
(a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
(D)
(a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
6. Which feminist critic classifies women writers in three main stages i.e. female, feminine and feminist?
a) Toril Moi
b) Elaine
Showalter
c) Kate
Millet
d) Simone de
Beauvoir
7.Match
the term with the theorist:
(a)
Negritude (1)
Alice Walker
(b) Womanism (2) Jurgen
Habermas
(c)
Interpellation (3)
Aime Cesaire
(d) Louis
Althusser (d)
Public Sphere
Code
(A) (a)-(2),
(b)-(1), (c)-(4), (d)-(3)
(B) (a)-(3),
(b)-(2), (c)-(4), (d)-(1)
(C) (a)-(1),
(b)-(2), (c)-(4), (d)-(3)
(D) (a)-(3),
(b)-(1), (c)-(4), (d)-(2)
8. Which
of the following is subtitled 'The woman writer and the nineteenth century
literary imagination'?
a) A
Literature of their own
b) Madwoman
in the attic
c) No Man's
Land
d) Mothers
of the novel
9.Which
of the following works reclaims 100 good women writers before Jane Austen?
a) The Sex
which is not One
b) Three
Guineas
c) Mothers
of the novel
d) No Man's
Land
10. Which
of the following texts argued that woman could be truly free only if she and
her body were freed of reproduction?
a) The
Dialectic of Sex
b) The
Female Eunuch
c) Woman in
the 19th Century
d) Sexual
Politics
11. Match
the authors with their texts:
a) Mary
Ellman i)
The Female Eunuch
b) Germaine
Greer ii) Thinking
about Women
c) Toril Moi iii)
Women in the 19th Century
d) Margaret
Fuller iv) The
Feminist Reader
Code:
1.
(a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii)
2. (a)-(iv),
(b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iii)
3. (a)-(ii),
(b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
4. (a)-(ii),
(b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
12. Who coined the term 'gynocritic'?
a) Judith
Butler
b) Elaine
showalter
c) Mary
Ellman
d) Simone de
Beauvoir
13.Who
amongst the following belongs to the group of radical feminists ?
(A) Helene
Cixous
(B) Monica
Wittig
(C) Simone
de Beauvoir
(D) Luce
Irigaray
14.The earliest tract on feminism is
(A) Simone
de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
(B) Virginia
Woolf's A Room of One's Own
(C) Mary
Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
(D) Mary
Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
15.The earliest woman novelist of significance in the 18th century is:
(A)Mary
Edgeworth
(B) Aphra
Behn
(C) Mary
Russell
(D) Mrs
Gaskell
16.The term "womanism" was first used by
(A) Helene
Cixous
(B) Gayatri
Spivak
(C) Kate
Millet
(D) Alice
Walker
17.While
foregrounding the marginal presence of women in history in A Room of One's Own,
Virginia Woolf refers to History of England.
(A)
Campbell's
(B)
Trevelyan's
(C) Sander's
(D) Carter's
18.The
author of Gender Trouble is
(A) Elaine
Showalter
(B) Helene
Cixous
(C) Michele
Barrett
(D) Judith
Butler
19.The "madwoman in the attic" is a specific reference to
(A) The
narrator of "Goblin Market"
(B) Augusta
Egg's 1858 narrative painting
(C) The
Heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper
(D) Bertha
Mason of Jane Eyre
20. Tennyson's
poem about women's rights and women's sphere is :
(A) Maud
(B) In
Memoriam
(C) Idylls
of the King
(D) The
Princess
21.Julia
Kristeva's 'intertextuality' derives from.
a. Noam
Chomsky's deep structure
b. Mikhail
Bakhtin's dialogism
c. Jacques
Derrida's differance
d. Ferdinand
de Saussure's sign
The right
combination according to the code is :
(A) (a) and
(b)
(B) (b) and
(c)
(C) (c) and
(d)
(D) (a) and
(d)
22.This was a path-breaking feminist essay written in the 1970s which used hybrid terms like "sext" and "chaosmos." Identify the author.
(A) Luce
Irigaray
(B) Helene
Cixous
(C) Julia
Kristeva
(D) Simon de
Beauvoir
23.Who is the author of Mary, and the unfinished The Wrongs of Woman?
(A) Mary
Wollstonecraft
(B) William
Godwin
(C) Mary Hay
(D)
Elizabeth Inchbald
24.In her essay "Professions for Women" Virginia Woolf finds an analogy between the act of writing and ……….
(A) driving
a motor car
(B) riding a
horse
(C) fishing
(D)
gardening
25.Match
the title with the author:
(a) Sexual
Politics (i)
Mary Ellman
(b) A
Literature of Their Own (ii)
Elaine Showalter
(c) Thinking
About Women (iii)
Helene Cixous
(d) The
Laugh of the Medusa (iv)
Kate Millet
Code:
(A) (iv)
(iii) (i) (ii)
(B) (iv)
(ii) (i) (iii)
(C) (iii)
(iv) (i) (ii)
(D) (iv) (i)
(ii) (iii)
26. In
her 1970 book, Sexual Politics, Kate Millet applauds the sexual politics of
which writer?
a) D.H.
Lawrence
b) Jean
Genet
e) Norman
Mailer
d) Henry
Miller
27.
Who said “Man is Bourgeoisie and Women a proletariat?”
A. Frederich Engels B. J.B Elshtain
C. Karl Mark D.
S.M Okin
28.
Who coined the “Feminism”?
A. Charles
Fourier B. Helen Cixous
C. Pierre
Bourdieu D. None
29.
Who said woman is an “imperfect man”
A. Rousseau B. St Thomas Aquinas
C. Freud D. Aristotle
30.
The
Feminine Mystique (1963) is a book by
A. Simon D Beauvoir B. Judith Mitchell
C. Betty Freidan D. Shulamith Firestone
Answers:
|
1.A |
2.C |
3.B |
4.A |
5.C |
6.B |
7.D |
8.B |
9.C |
10.A |
|
11.D |
12.B |
13.A |
14.D |
15.A |
16.D |
17.B |
18.D |
19.D |
20.D |
|
21.A |
22.B |
23.A |
24.C |
25.B |
26.B |
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